SSL folder HELP!

hi you all

i just bought my own site yepey!

the thing is yeah ive seen some site were in they have this SSL secure or somthing!

on my site i just install this hosting lets you! and it just created a folder (SSL)

Q is ... what should i do about it? what files should be in it?


keep enlighten me! tnks

Put whatever files in there you want. The name of the folder doesn't mean much, it's just an easy way to remember where your files are that handle SSL encrypted transactions.

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, (I think), which means that files within this folder are accessed by having https:// at the beginning of the URL, not http://. SSL is what places like online banking, online shopping and places like that use when they are handling credit card information. However, I recommend you don't use the SSL folder for just simple "information" pages on your website because users are prompted when changing from non-encrypted to encrypted, and the download time is longer because each data packet has to be encrypted and decrypted.

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